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More than a year before the U.S. invasion of Panama, Fidel Castro tried to booby-trap the operation he anticipated. Major Felipe Camargo, a former henchman of Manuel Noriega's, has told U.S. investigators that he met with Castro in February 1988 to plan resistance to any attack. Fidel suggested arming and training thousands of Panamanians into "dignity battalions," which were formed prior to the attack. Castro did not envision an outright victory over U.S. forces but a stalemate that would embarrass the superpower and last long enough to allow for a U.N.-mediated cease-fire, presumably with Noriega still...
...becomes a land of silences, forged out of apathy or fear. By his first morning in Havana, the ever combative polemist is professing his fury with Castro. Soon he is committing himself to such statements as "It isn't hard to predict that in a free election the candidate Fidel Castro would receive less than 10 percent of the votes" -- a claim that would surprise even some of Castro's staunchest adversaries, and raises unanswered questions about who would get the other...
...missing tapes. It was no wonder they had been kept secret: in them, Khrushchev sheds startling new light on Stalin's complicity in the murder that launched the savage purges of the 1930s; on a secret overture to Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime during World War II; and on Fidel Castro's apocalyptic recklessness during the Cuban missile crisis...
...sent a military delegation to Cuba to inform Fidel about our proposals and get his consent. Castro gave his approval. We wanted to do the whole thing in secret. Our security organs assured us this was possible even though American planes overflew Cuban territory all the time. Supposedly, the palm trees would keep our missiles from being seen from the air. We installed the missiles aboveground because silos would have required too much time to build and we believed there was not much time before the Americans invaded. It was our intention after installing the missiles to announce their presence...
...veterans of that rogues' gallery, Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi, have survived attempts at what is known in spookspeak as "termination with extreme prejudice." In the early 1960s the CIA concocted exotic poisons and hired Mafia hit men in a bizarre and feckless murder plot against the Cuban leader. In 1986 Ronald Reagan hurled squadrons of fighter-bombers at Libya, and White House aides privately hoped at least one bomb would have Gaddafi's name...